Next time at dinner when you give
thanks for your food and for your loved ones, you might also
want to give thanks for microbes like Penicillium
that have benefited your health and your
tastebuds.

Mold Makes
Antibiotics

This amazing fungus produces the
famous antibiotic, penicillin. In 1928. Alexander Fleming
observed that a mold called Penicillium notatum
produced a substance, later known as penicillin, that killed
bacteria in its presence. This antibiotic was the first of
many to be found and used to treat infections.